I understand the complaint but I think it’s very dangerous when you are trying to say someone campaigning for a political office can’t say what can be understood to mean “we should repeal the NLRA and allow employers to fire striking workers” because there’s a law that protects that right CURRENTLY.

the problem is at the end of the day you cannot control sex trafficking without investigating sex work. They’re twin sides of the same coin. It’s like trying to control drug abuse without investigating prescription drugs whatsoever and not dealing with them at all— the “legal” supply is commingled with the illegal…

companies are still heavily investing in “industrial NFT” which operates far differently (there’s no energy-wasting proof of work for one) and show real potential for things like inventory management and international shipping, but I have no doubt most people won’t ever own an NFT, even if they might be prescribed…

“I refuse to believe fire is dangerous unless you can point out someone that spontaineously combusted! see! you can’t do it!”

This is actually a really, really good thing for gamers.

The price is fairly minuscule, does not affect free games, and only affects games once they’re earning “real money”. A mid-price indy game that costs 20 bucks this is a rounding error in the price and would a price change from 19.99 to 20.15 really stop anyone…

in what world could a maximum of ten cents per install once you earn more than 200k and have 200k users on a monetized game bankrupt anyone?

that would require your average revenue per user to be miniscule.

bold of you to assume someone on “only” ketamine and coke isn’t the best Florida has to offer compared to the run of the mill meth-and-bath-salt zombies.

yes because telling people they are not allowed to start a business or get a job in the cannabis industry would create no racial animosity whatsoever (or be legal in any way shape or form).

I know that and I still think it’s a disaster, any time you promise one group something other people also desperately need and leave another equally impoverished group out it’s going to sow dissension and create animosity. That’s the whole point, that’s why it’s becoming a major issue now because the wealthy class…

all-night places seem to attract trouble.  It was another gawkerverse site that summed it up nicely “Waffle houses are not a chain of restaurants that sometimes have fights, they are a chain of fights that happens to serve food”

My biggest issue with them is twofold— first my local BM is beyond clapped out, the speakers outside were blown out years ago and sound like a speak-n-spell that’s been sitting in an attic since the carter administration being played at top volume, the floor tiles are cracked, the pavement outside looks like it came…

we have a bingo! It’s no noble and thoughtful game design decision.

Reparations are the ultimate in race-baiting by the elites. They are tailor-made to stir up racial animosity and pit poor people against each other and prevent them from uniting by telling one group they deserve the other’s money, and the other that even though they’re barely keeping head above water they are going to…

there once was a man in nantucket

please stop with the bullshit “killed for innocent sounding ‘crime’” thing. The moment you’re fighting cops it’s no longer about the crime that caused the whole event it’s now about the fact you’re trying to kill someone.

that’s completely wrong.

I came here to make the same joke, but you beat me to it.

it’s not that suicides shouldn’t be counted it’s that it’s disingenuous to lump the two together because the causes are so radically different.  Suicide is preventable through mental health treatment, crime is largely not. It’s also disingenuous to include suicides as a crime statistic on one hand and decry suicide…

Guns save more lives than they take by most reliable statistics— so it’s wrong to treat it as a matter of “more guns automatically is bad because it means more gun deaths”, without considering how many more crimes are prevented and lives saved either from death or irreparable trauma. It’s not a matter of guns…

the states could solve this in one law, they just need to pass a law that creates a method that includes due process protections and a proper standard of proof, and then they can take guns away all day long.

The problem is they don’t want to do that, they want to use a process that the courts have repeatedly ruled…